My son got his drivers license last week and I was nervous. I mean, is he REALLY old enough??? (Well, he is 17…but the picture on the left kind of expresses how I feel, if you know what I mean.)

But I kept referring back to The Law of Attraction in my mind. I mean, what kind of message was I sending out to him if I kept focusing on “what could happen”?

So I kept bringing myself back to the question (as I usually do), what do I want? “Remember, Rhonda”, I said to myself…focus on what you want, not what you don’t want.

So what I want is my son to be safe. What I want is my son to be independent, happy, responsible and live a fulfilled life. What I want is my son to be a good driver. What I want is for my son not to text and drive or talk on the phone while driving. Ooops, that’s focusing on what I don’t want again. So how can I word this in a way that is focusing on what I want?

What I want is for my son to be a responsible driver. A good driver.

My son is a good and safe driver. Yes, that is what I want.

And lucky me, he only asks to borrow the car to drive 5 minutes away to his friend’s house, and he didn’t even ask to borrow it on the weekend – Yet.

I am grateful that my son passed his driver’s test and is transitioning slowly and responsibly into a driving adult!

Where can you focus on what you want instead of what you don’t want?

We caved in and got my son the drum set for Christmas…with some conditions…like he’ll have to play it in the garage and not while we’re working.

It’s a brand new, bright red/wine colored shiny drum set, similar to the one pictured, which he’s can remove from the boxes in the garage on Christmas morning. Gotta give him something to look forward to. (He’s so excited he’s outside running up and down the driveway as I write this.)

My natural inclination was to say “No” right away…I mean, I have a hard enough time when he’s playing Guitar Hero… tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap…but being The Law of Attraction student/teacher that I am…I said…”let’s think about it and see how you can create what you want…if not for Christmas…maybe next year!”

Well, being the powerful manifestor that he is…he created it for Christmas.

Many of these Law of Attraction parenting tricks I learned (such as asking him to come up with ideas on how he could manifest what he wants instead of immediately shutting out all possibilities) I got from interviewing 10 amazing conscious parents for my Parenting: Law of Attraction Style program.

I wish I would have started earlier teaching my kids this stuff…but hey. As a parent I keep evolving. Raising children and teenagers is definitely one of the biggest challenges of my life…it makes you grow.

All is Well.